Honduras

El Obraje, Honduras

Honduras is a new country for Agua Viva. Our second system in Honduras was completed in May 2018 by a new team of eight volunteers. The system was planned to be installed in January of 2018, but the election unrest in the country forced Agua Viva to delay the installation until May. With an “all clear” sign from our new in-country coordinator, Rigo Rios, Agua Viva dispatched our team and the system was installed in record time. The celebration was Friday, and by Monday, two days later, all 500 children in the elementary school were drinking pure clean ozonate water from their new personal water bottles (all provided by Agua Viva). What a blessing! The teachers could not believe that they had been drinking that dirty water for all of those years!

Quisgualagua, Honduras

After two fanstatic installations already in 2016, Agua Viva got ambitious and signed a covenant with friends in a NEW country… Honduras. With humble beginnings at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS, Agua Viva was able to identify a small rural area in great need of purified drinking water at the Iglesia Metodista Unida in Quisgualagua, Honduras. This impoverished village consisted of mostly women with a woman pastor at the church, a women superintendent at the school, and now a woman System Operator for their new water purification system. So, in October 2016, a group of dedicated volunteers installed a complete system, conducted a fully blown Health & Hygiene Education Program, and provided dental services for every child in the school (with parental permission).

Quisgualagua

Church of the Resurrection (COR) in Overland Park, Kansas, provides medical and dental missions in El Obraje and Ciudad Espana, Honduras. The Church indicated that these communities did not have clean drinking water. So, in November 2015, Agua Viva joined the medical and dental team to Honduras. COR was kind enough to arrange for transportation to a small community called Quisgualagua. In this rural indigenous community, Iglesia Metodista Unida ministers to 100 church members and a community and school of about 1,000 people. Jim Allen was able to meet with the President of the Water Board and the Pastor of the local church, Pastor Jamileth. It didn’t take long to figure out that this community was perfect for a new water purification system. Agua Viva plans to return in October 2016 for a full installation.

Two hundred of Agua Viva’s best friends celebrated Agua Viva’s “Night at the Diamond” at Kauffman Stadium on November 17th. Guests enjoyed food stations featuring Aramark’s best gourmet entrees: lobster corn dogs, beef sliders, Chipotle Chicken Tacos and much more while they strolled the Diamond Club to learn more about Agua Viva’s mission. Our install […]

Curt Mader, CEO of non-profit Agua Viva International, will be the proud recipient of the Buck O’Neal Legacy Seat when the Kansas City Royals play the Boston Red Sox at 7:15 pm, on June 19, 2017. Please watch us on TV! Or, better yet, come to the Royals Stadium and watch us on the big screen! Curt Mader and Agua Viva International have installed […]

On this trip to Ecuador we have assembled quite a team. Our teams of volunteers almost always consist of several divine appointments. To begin, we have three volunteers from the United States. Nobody is paid… straight up volunteers. Many of us gave up vacation time… We all gave up family time. But, that is only […]

Houduras 2016 The Agua Viva Team arrived in Quisgualagua, Hoduras, today, Sunday, just in time for church. God was with us and it was such a pleasure to meet our new friends. It was also troubling to see the extreme poverty in the area and I think we were all wondering what God has in […]

Writing this post it is hard not to get emotional! God has done so much through this organization, touched so many lives, decreased disease and malnutrition risks for so many children as well as brought us into new uncharted territories! We could never have dreamed 6 years ago that installing one little water purification system at an […]

The Education Team: Jared, Deanna, and Nancy along with interpreters Anna and Stephanie, trained a group of four adult Guatemalan teachers to share the principles of hygiene to the rest of the community, using the curriculum that AVI compiled. These teachers were so great. They took the material and really made it their own. As […]

The Dental Team Lea and Jim (team members) and Raquel and Wendy (Locals from Guatemala) comprised the very dynamic and hard working dental team. Jim was the set up man, while Lea assisted Raquel and Wendy, the dentists who serve with AVI, but live in Guatemala. Their friend and fellow dental student, Neddy, also joined […]

The following are stories gathered from members of Agua Viva’s recent trip to Huehuetanango, Guatemala. Stay tuned over the course of the next 5 weeks for the series of reflections. Getting There: June 11th, 2016 On June 11, ten well-equipped Americans arrived at KCI at 4:00am to fly to Guatemala City via Houston. By well […]

Quezaltepeque, Guatemala Agua Viva has a new and wonderful opportunity to provide clean ozonated water at a beautiful church and school in Quezaltepeque, Guatemala. In January 2017, Curt Mader and Dale Bain visited the Colegio Catolico Privado Mixto San Franscisco de Asis where 500 children attend school with NO access to clean drinking water. This […]

Author: David Watts, Agua Viva Volunteer and Benefactor Thursday: After a few more wrinkles and surprises the installation team completed their work, trained the system operators (two of the three are women who cook for the orphans). Thursday evening our work was done and the first six bottles of water were sealed and we had […]

Author: David Watts, Agua Viva Volunteer and Benefactor Tuesday: We got the materials and work really picked up on the system. The installation team led by Dale Bain and Harold Barnett punched holes in cinder block walls and solved one challenge after another. It’s not like you can run down to Home Depot for more parts. You […]

Author: David Watts, Agua Viva Volunteer and Benefactor Sunday: We drove the winding mountain roads to “Shadow of His Wings” Orphanage, a rural compound housing some 70 kids in Monjas, Guatemala. Shadow’s houses are grouped in a horseshoe each with 10 to 12 kids and house parents. The Shadow project has its own school and it […]

Author: David Watts, Agua Viva Volunteer and Benefactor If someone offered you the chance to avoid having intestinal worms I bet you would take it. That is the reality of the work we (Agua Viva) did in Monjas, Guatemala, a small rural community East of Guatemala City. It is a comfort to know the work […]

Author: Jared Orr, Agua Viva International Volunteer Midway through the week, we had the privilege of taking non-perishable food items to some of the poorest of the poor in Monjas. It was heart breaking seeing the state in which some of these people lived, yet we saw God in the midst of our evening. We […]

Author: Jared Orr, Agua Viva International Volunteer The main reason that my team traveled to SOHW was to install a water purification system. Up until this point, they have been using a rudimentary filtration that did not remove nearly enough bacteria and parasites from the water. After we left, their water was cleaner than the […]

Author: Jared Orr, Agua Viva International Volunteer I made it back from Guatemala after a jam-packed week of labor and ministry, and the purpose of this writing is to encourage you in the Lord. I want to explain how the trip went from my perspective… as well as show you the greatness of our God. I […]

July 4, 2015 The James Project – Shadow of His Wings Orphanage Monjas, Jalapa, Guatemala Today we traveled from my friend Ruben Noguera’s home in Quetzaltepeque to Monjas, Jalapa to have a pre-installation meeting with our newest Guatemala Operating Partner at the Shadow of His Wings Orphanage. This is my first time at the orphanage. […]

July 5, 2015 Las Cruces, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Today Dale Bain, Mario Mejia and I attended church service with Pastor Miguel Calderon doing the preaching and a number of community/church members performing a number of songs and sharing the Gospel. Today’s service lasted nearly 3 ½ hours and we had the wonderful opportunity to share […]

Shadow of His Wings Orphanage (SOHWO) is located just outside of Monjas, Jalapa, Guatemala– a small town of about 10,000 people east of Guatemala City. On Halloween, 2015 a team of Agua Viva volunteers will depart Kansas City to complete our fifth installation in the country of Guatemala. Currently home to approximately 80 girls and 10 boys, […]